Date: 1920-05-29

[Editorial note on prior recipients' biographical information]

...on food supply missions for the Red Army, was a member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, People's Commissar of Trade and Industry, Communications; from 1919 he was engaged in diplomatic work; in 1922–1924 he was People's Commissar of Foreign Trade.

TELEGRAM
TO I. N. MAYEVSKY, M. K. VLADIMIROV,
THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT,
THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE 13TH ARMY
[October 8, 1919]

Comrade Mayevsky, Comrade Vladimirov,
Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front, Revolutionary Military Council of the 13th Army—

In view of the departure of the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary Comrade Vladimirov to the South-Eastern Front and the urgency of immediately clearing the Orel–Tula section of cargo located there, the powers of the Plenipotentiary of the Southern Front on this section shall be transferred, pending Vladimirov's return, to the Plenipotentiary of the Central District, Comrade Mayevsky.

Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin

Printed from a typescript signed by V. I. Lenin

[Footnote on M. K. Vladimirov]
M. K. Vladimirov (Sheinfinkell)—member of the RSDLP from 1903. After the Great October Socialist Revolution he worked in the Petrograd City Food Administration and in the People's Commissariat of Food; in 1919—Extraordinary Military Commissar of Railways and Chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Southern Front.

CERTIFICATE
February 20, 1920

I have known Comrade Alexander Sidorovich Shapovalov for a long time, for many years before the Revolution. I know him personally as the most reliable and devoted Bolshevik and revolutionary.

I request that full confidence and every assistance be extended to him.

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[Footnote on A. S. Shapovalov]
A. S. Shapovalov—one of the oldest participants in the revolutionary movement in Russia; in 1894 a member of the People's Will. From 1895—member of the "Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class." In 1906 he emigrated abroad and participated in the work of foreign Bolshevik organizations. In 1917 he returned to Russia. After the October Socialist Revolution he worked in Soviet and Party positions. At the XIII Congress of the RCP(b) he was elected to the Central Control Commission. Subsequently he engaged in literary work.

MEMORANDUM TO M. P. TOMSKY, V. V. SCHMIDT,
A. D. TSIURUPE AND V. P. MILYUTIN
[May 29, 1920]

I propose that a commission be created urgently, consisting of representatives of:

The People's Commissariat of Labor (or the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions)
The People's Commissariat of Food
The Supreme Council of the National Economy
and a member of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee, Comrade Paikhes,

for discussion of the question of the possibility of transferring immediately to Siberia unemployed industrial workers from starving regions for food supply work and food supply army (for the summer and autumn of 1920), and possibly also the transfer of one factory.

Deadline for report to the Council of People's Commissars—Tuesday, June 1.

Chairman
Council of People's Commissars

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[Footnotes on recipients]
1 M. P. Tomsky—a member of the Party from 1904. After the October Socialist Revolution—Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, head of OGIZ. Repeatedly spoke against Lenin's Party policy; in 1928 was one of the leaders of the right opportunist deviation in the VKP(b).

V. V. Schmidt—member of the Bolshevik Party from 1905. In 1918–1928—Secretary of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, then—People's Commissar of Labor.

V. P. Milyutin—participated in the social-democratic movement from 1903, initially aligned with the Mensheviks, from 1910 a Bolshevik. In 1918–1921—Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, then—in other responsible Soviet and economic work.

2 A. K. Paikhes—before 1917 a Menshevik, in 1918 joined the RCP(b). In 1918–1920 he worked as a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of State Control and of the RCP in Saratov and Siberia, member of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee.

3 On June 1, 1920, at a session of the Council of People's Commissars, Lenin signs a draft decree of the Council of People's Commissars on sending food supply detachments to Siberia, writes on the draft decree: "Approved in the Council of People's Commissars June 1, 1920."